Pricing: a working reference.
Pricing frameworks for original work, consistency across channels and raising prices over time, editions and prints, discounts, and commissioned-work terms.
Pricing principles for original work
Cost-plus floors, size tiering and market comparables — how each method works, where it breaks, and why internal consistency matters most.
15 min 02Price consistency, channels, and raising prices over time
One price for a work wherever it sells: commission stacking, the signals that justify a raise, how much and how often — and why prices rarely drop.
22 min 03Discounts, payment plans, donations, and trade
Discount conventions and their downstream effects, splitting a discount with a gallery, trades and barter, and charity donations.
13 min 04Pricing editions, prints, and reproductions
Edition size as the scarcity lever: designations, signing and numbering, open versus limited, and where reproductions sit.
18 min 05Commissioned-work pricing: deposits and milestones
Quoting a commission as a structure, not a number: deposits, milestone payments, kill fees, and holding the line on scope.
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